Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-29
WANTS TO KNOW THE TRUTH.

WANTS To hNOh 1hh AhO Ah'
BEAVER FALLS, PA, Aug. 81, 1881
To tbs Editor ofhs Register, WheeliRg, West
JjrgiRiC:
DEAR SIR-A gentleman of our town
states that Foraker used up Wilson, Gov
ernor of West Virginia, in n speech so bad
ly that he slunk out Of the hotel, and that
his iWils0n'Sl friends were all ashamed OF
him. Please state If this il correct, and
send me a copy of your paper containing
report of Yesterdays rthe 26th) proceed
ingS
Very respectfully yours,
J. b. KERR.
4 score OF more Of letters from the sur
rounding States have been received at this
office, complaining bitterly OF the absolute
impoSsibility of getting an unbiased and
truthful account of the disgraeeful scenes
of Friday. through the radical Republican
press. Especially is this true OF Pitts
burg
Mr.. KERg wishes to know the truth IN
reOard 10 the MeLure House incident. 1t
Is safe to say that had Governor FORAKER
remained away from Wheeling there would
have been nothing To complain of IN this
meeting Prior to his arrival, although
speeches we're made every day, politics
were not mentioned, nor probably though1
of by the speakers or their audiences. The
speakers were, in the main, old soldiers.
II rsr,,;nrj E,r FORAKER, this seli-suti-
cient young hraggart aud clap-trap
p5litician. who's, brain ~ turned
by TIE possibility OF being
the soldiers candidate for the Vice
Presidency in lSSS, it remained
for this political prig to disgrace himself
his audience aud the occasion, by throw
inc out his ever ready drag-net for the
soldier vote " His speech WAS au out
rage upon the city OF Wheeling, OF whose
people n. VS. the honored guest. Had he
been ON a BLAINE clectioneering tour he
could not have waved the bloody shir'
more franticAlly. It Wa a rauk insult tC
the minority OF our citizeuS- Democrats
who striyed heartily Tor the success OF the
reunion, with the idea that it was mon
pa1trsan aui without whose aid the re
union would have been i Hat failure from
start to finish.
Gov. wlI.~oN WAS then called upon,
He had not come TO talk politics. BuI
what WIS he to d52 Was be to stand by
and c,lmly take the insult offered our peo'
ple, of whom in this State he |;
the highest representative: Evidently
the Republican press OF the country thInS
he should have presented the Other cheek
to be slapped and spit upon. But the
people of West Virginia are not used I,
doing that sort Of thing anl do not elec
that kind OF = Governor.
Governor WU.SpN could have done nc
less than he dii, NJ ieSS than each and al
OF these Republican editors would do were
invited guests OF theirs 20 act The boor II
their house and iasult their households
and hospitality.
Mr.. KERR wants to know whether For
AKEE used up" Gov. WILSON 80 badl!
that he slunk out OF the hOtel."
The REGISTER had able representative
upon the ground aud these were not aware
that GOV. WusoS WAS in the least degr,'
used up, aud he certainly dbl not "shnL
on, OF the hotel Ga the contrary Il
rebuked Gov. FoRAEEE, Wheeling
clownish CUES, and took the youas man
bloody SHIRT" aud tore it to shred
before the eyes ot howl
ing Republican mob. he spoke Il
threa.ula7ters of an hour. H. WI
NAL and Heaven knows he had lust cauS'
to be. Every loyal citizen in the land
mad. riphysously mad, at having the Va
CONTINUALLY thrust ia his face, twenty-five
years after It has been settled; that sucl
howling d,maIngues aS FORAKER dc
nonnc- the south tOr the diSlOyalty o
twcn,v-two years ago, and then laud Z
the skies political procession that re
fused t. marth uuder bLnne, bearing tn
inscription. GOD Bless Our President
FoRAKER's outrage upon his hosts, IT,
people OF Wheeling, was eheered by IL
Republican mob, while Governor vii
soN's gallant defense Of loyalty and de
c,ncy wa, irtrri hG hissod aud an attemp
made To howl the speaker dowa. Bn
these, supplemented even by the threat
that were used, did uot deter Gov. vii
son from saying all he had to say and say
ing it emphatieally and well.
The REtIsrEE eau aLswer its correspon
dent without hesitation; when last seei
Gov. Wilson did not look like n used
up" man, hit to the eyes Of all tru
Americans who SAW him, young Mr.. Fox
AKER did not have enough lei; Of In
bloody shirt" to hide the naked detormit!
Of his claim to the vote oil the true veteran
YESTERDAY was Sunday and through
out the len gth and breadth Of this patrI
otic country, the ministers OF GoD in thei